#!/bin/sh
# Perform incremental backups using rsync and hardlinks.
#
# Thanks to http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups_2010.html for the
# idea.
# Copyright (C) 2011-2013 Simon Ruderich
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see .
set -e
if test "$#" -lt 2; then
echo "Usage: $0 " >&2
echo
echo "Note: The target directory is the _first_ argument!" >&2
exit 2
fi
cd "$1" || exit 1
shift
dest=`echo backup-*`
if test "x$dest" != 'xbackup-*'; then
# -F and grep is used to list only directories, zsh's *(/) would be great.
dest="`pwd`/`ls -1dF backup-* | grep / | tail -n1`"
fi
target=backup-`date '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S'`
if test -d current; then
echo "Target directory 'current' already exists, aborting." >&2
exit 1
fi
mkdir current
rsync \
--verbose --itemize-changes --human-readable \
--archive --hard-links --numeric-ids --one-file-system \
--link-dest="$dest" \
"$@" current \
&& mv current "$target"